English school life in Tapah exemplified multiculturalism


KUALA LUMPUR: A collection of school stories capturing the sociological history of small town Tapah at the crucial intersection of British rule and Malaya’s independence will hit the shelves soon.

Authored by prominent acade­mic Puan Sri Prof Dr Jamilah Ariffin, Legends, Lessons and Love: A Small Town and an English School brings to life her experience of growing up in Tapah in the 1950s and 1960s, and attending the Government English School of Tapah, which exemplified multiculturalism.

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